The Blythe Heat were a professional baseball team based in Blythe, California . They played in the Arizona Winter League , a short-season instructional winter league affiliated with the North American League . They began play in 2007 and played their home games at Alexander Field in Blythe. They are the only team in the instructional league that play their home games somewhere other than the league's home base of Yuma, Arizona 's Desert Sun Stadium . They were owned by Diamond Sports & Entertainment. The team's uniform logo was that of the former Western Baseball League team, the Chico Heat , predecessors to the GBL's Chico Outlaws .
4-755: They won the AWL Championship in their first season in March 2008. They defeated the Canada Miners 10–5 in the Championship Game. The franchise folded in 2011 after the NAL folded. Arizona Winter League: This article about a baseball team in California is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Canada Miners The Western Canada Miners (also known as just
8-695: The Canada Miners ) are a professional independent baseball team based in Yuma, Arizona , and representing western Canada . They play in the developmental Arizona Winter League , a short-season instructional winter league affiliated with the North American League and they play their home games at Desert Sun Stadium in Yuma, as well as the San Diego Surf Dawgs , Saskatchewan Silver Sox , Team Canada and Yuma Scorpions . The team uses
12-605: The logo and uniforms of the now-defunct Mesa Miners team and are owned by Diamond Sports & Entertainment. On April 3, 2009, the Miners were announced as one of the three charter teams in the new Arizona Summer League , an instructional league also affiliated with the Golden Baseball League . The league was formed following the success of the AWL. In July 2009, after 14 games and no playoff, they were declared
16-534: The very first ASL Champions. The ASL version was renamed the Bisbee Miners for 2010 and the Mesa Miners for 2011 and possibly beyond. The NAL still owns the rights to the "Miners" brand (including name, logo and uniforms) and a future expansion team would have no ties to the original Mesa team. Some suggest that previously sought-after Canadian cities Kamloops and Kelowna should be the new home of
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